Discipleship Quotes

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty of people in the church and outside it have made up a ‘Jesus’ for themselves, and have found that this invented character makes few real demands on them. He makes them feel happy from time to time, but doesn’t challenge them, doesn’t suggest they get up and do something about the plight of the world. Which is, of course, what the real Jesus had an uncomfortable habit of doing.

~ N.t. Wright

Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God's will! Do not say, I do not have the faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient, so long as you will not take that first step. Do not say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith, because and so long as you will not take that first step. Instead, you have hardened yourself in disbelief under the appearance of humble faith.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.

~ Walter Isaacson

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

~ Beth Moore

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

~ Charles Dickens

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

~ John Howard Griffin

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

~ Frank Herbert

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

~ Frank Herbert

He made his character his platform.

~ H.w. Brands

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

~ Frank Bruni

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

~ Jonathan Haidt

The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

~ Geraldine Brooks

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

~ Geraldine Brooks

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

~ Sherry Turkle

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

~ Sherry Turkle

In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.

~ Patrick Hennessey

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

~ Sherry Turkle

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

~ Chris Matthews

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Expect progress, not perfection.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

~ James Carl Nelson

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog

~ Brian Eshleman

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

~ Charles Dickens

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

~ H.w. Brands

When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Everytime I share Jesus Christ, I feel like a superhero!

~ Jane Bulos

Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.

~ Robin M. Bertram

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.

~ Henri Nouwen

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.

~ Landa Cope

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

~ Oswald Chambers

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilities with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.

~ Abraham Kuyper

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.

~ David Brooks